#mightyisthepen

[nordarknessdimsthesky]

Tell us about Shamal!

Full Name: Shamal Almagest Source: R O G U E Gender and Sexuality: nonbinary guy, queer and demisexual Pronouns: he/they Ethnicity/Species: Human Birthplace and Birthdate: Vermont, Earth. 2862 Guilty Pleasures: Singing in the shower, smelling the flowers Phobias: Asphyxiation, fires on a space station, being stranded alone in space What They Would Be Famous For: He played a very small part on a team at Montgomery-Montgomery, a biomed company, that found the cure for cancer.  He’s pretty humble though, and he would emphasize that he only had a small role studying a fern species that mutated so rapidly it created a compound that could undo radiation and reverse harmful cell growth. What They Would Get Arrested For: I don’t think Shamal would do anything that would get him arrested, but he would break station protocol in order to save a life in an extreme situation. OC You Ship Them With: Canonically they are partners with Teo Bawbee. OC Most Likely To Murder Them: Who would dare murder Shamal??? Favorite Movie/Book Genre: Survival or adventure Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: In world, probably books or movies that don’t depict the plants on Tand accurately -- like how Tand’s plants grow in one direction towards Tva and have a black appearance due to the infrared light.   Talents and/or Powers: He has a very green thumb and can bring back most dying plants. Why Someone Might Love Them: Shamal’s a good storyteller.  He’s good natured, confident, calming, and encouraging to others. Why Someone Might Hate Them: He can be overly superstitious.  He can get paranoid under stress. How They Change: Not a ton of personal development, but relationship development was key for Shamal.  He was afraid Teo would react badly when he told her Mo-Mo would definitely fund his Ph.D. back on Earth. Together they decided to move to Earth from Epsilon Eridani Station, but Shamal is proud of her for taking the leap and happy that she trusts him. Why You Love Them: I got to sing in game as Shamal and play a satisfying partnership in a larp, which were both firsts for me.

[chromoluminary]

😢, 🥳, and also whatever the rectangle next to "I'd want to be friends but disintegrates" is

😢 - ??????

ok I’m gonna be real, most of the emojis don’t show up for me on my laptop and I’ve been control+f searching for each one individually and for some reason I cannot find this one ??? I will accept the vibes regardless

🥳 - you unironically make me happy

You make me so happy too!! I’m so glad we got to know each other over the last ??? year and change ??? how has it been so long !!! and so little time still !!!

🦥 - id wanna b friends but :disintegrates:

big same !!!!!!! I am sorry for not reaching out much; i really really want to make more of an active effort (and i v much should poke u more often abt rtah stuff bc !!!! you have good taste in media and i do not know many ppl who keep up w their stuff much anymore)

[pythagoriantymek]

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Thank-you for the ask friend!

[measureyourlifeincake]

Harvest, amber, spice

harvest - what fictional character do you most identify with? Why? Ugh, this is a really tough question. I don’t tend to really identify with fictional characters that much. Like, I’ll see certain traits and whatnot in different characters and relate to them or project onto them for one reason or another, but I don’t often point to a character and go, “that’s me,” yknow? The only character that currently comes to mind rn is Zolf Smith from Rusty Quill Gaming, which is... a weird choice, ngl. Superficially, have basically nothing in common. He’s a gruff, uncharismatic dwarf cleric with a tragic backstory and a below-average number of legs. None of this fits in with my life or how I see myself (and like okay, obviously I’m not a dwarf or a cleric bc those things aren’t possible, but I have thought about what I’d be in a dnd world, and I’d definitely be a human bard. And I know that’s a bit of a cop-out since I, like all dnd players, am human IRL, but I know people vibe with different fantasy races a lot and I’ve never particularly vibed with dwarves). Like, I don’t even vibe with the aesthetic  of it all. He used to be in the navy, and then he became a pirate, and at some point became a cleric of Poseidon, and I’ve never really been into the whole nautical thing (unless you count liking sea shanties, but that’s about it). Despite all this, there’s something about... his outlook, I guess? and the way he handles things? that I really relate to (which is probably worrisome, as he is canonically pretty fucking depressed but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). I dunno, just... a lot of times I feel like I understand the way he makes decisions and could see myself making the same ones if put in his situation. Also, when he gets into arguments with other party members (which happens quite a bit), I find myself taking his side more often than not. Also, there’s something about the way that he cares about people that I can relate to (although I feel like I’m usually better at comforting people, likely because I don’t have a charisma score of 8)

amber - share an unpopular opinion that you may have. I fucking love the wording of this one. Not an unpopular opinion that I do have, but one that I may have. Fuck it. I think bacon is overrated. Do I believe that??? Do I not????? You don’t knooooooow~~~ It’s an opinion that I may have!!!!!!!

spice - have you ever encountered a house that you believed to be haunted? Nope! Wish I had something more interesting to say here. I don’t.

[antiquery]

Hi! I was wondering if you would be willing to explain what happened in the dnd session referred to in that "promise me you'll keep her safe" post. I'm only asking because the entire image reminds me of something that happened to me in a larp recently and now I'm curious! Sorry if this is weird!

not weird at all, & sorry it took me so long to get around to it! 

at the very beginning of our d&d campaign, @irishandrogyne‘s character, viesra the changeling warlock, had a vision of a young woman praying at the feet of a statue of the traveller, their former deity & the patron of changelings. a couple sessions ago, viesra saw that woman in the square in roxbury (campaign home base): they introduced themselves, found out that the woman’s name was rose, and ended up heading home with her for dinner. there they met rose’s guardian, an elderly elf named jacques le fleur. according to rose, he took her in as a foundling— he’s all she’s ever had.

later on in the evening, jacques got viesra alone, and told them the truth: that rose was not a foundling. she is the single living descendant of rowan glendower, the last of the garden kings who ruled the western reach before the arrival of the ecclesia, the current rulers, two centuries ago. the belief is that glendower’s only daughter died in the destruction of the flowering keep, but in actuality jacques, her tutor, smuggled her out & kept her safe. he was old then, nearing the end of his life, but in order to protect his charge he used unnatural methods of prolonging his life, at great cost to his sanity & soul.

why viesra? here i’ll quote from the dead man’s switch letter jacques had sent to viesra, after he drank hemlock in front of them, his duty done, with those dying words:

There is a very old story, about the House of Gardens. It is said that Harold Glendower, first of his royal name, grew up in the Feywild, in the cold waste of the Vale of the Long Night. It is said, too, that where he stepped flowers grew, and vines twined round his sword when he fought. It is said that the blessing of the Dreamer King, long-dead and sleeping yet, flowed through his veins. When he fell on the battlefield, roses grew up through his body, and there we laid the first stones of the Flowering Keep. 

Of the betrayer children of the First Regent, it is said, there shall come one to redeem in blood their legacy. Faceless and cold, waste-born and barren, one shall rise, and lift to her rightful throne the last-blessed of their late father. He will be the Knight of Flowers, the protector of the rightful king. With the blood of the sleeping regent and a heart frozen by the touch of the usurper, he will restore life to all that is barren. The Garden Lord shall come again, in our hour of greatest need; in the person of his child shall he betray the false kings, and right the ancient wrong so long remembered.

important context: the feywild of this universe is in fact a freezing cold wasteland, and has been such ever since the death of the dreamer king at his daughter’s hand uncounted millennia before. as punishment for her betrayal the gods stole her father’s likeliness from her face, & condemned her to wander the land she’d made barren.

rose, of course, was horrified. she blames viesra for the death of the only person she’s ever loved; when viesra finally bit the bullet and told her about her heritage, she blew up at them, burned the letter, and screamed at them to get out. so that’s fun! 

the existence of a living glendower would be a huge upset to the political status quo in the five kingdoms— whether the ecclesia would deal with it as the benevolent philosopher-kings they purport themselves to be, or whether they’d just have her killed, is a current unknown. additionally, the band of glendower loyalists known as the separatists would be very interested in the continued existence of someone with a legitimate claim to the throne.

[heresyourchecksir]

@mightyisthepen technically I could do the same, check without getting caught, but I tend to freak out very visibly. So that won’t work. Sadly.

[four-for-fidelity]

get to know me tag

I was tagged by @mightyisthepen and coincidentally it also took me forever to get to this whoops

Rules: answer the prompts and tag 20 however many I feel like blogs you would like to get to know better

Nicknames: I don’t really have any???? other than “Kilometers” tbh

Gender: Male

Starsign: Gemini

Height: 6′

Time: 12:46pm

Birthday: June 9th

Favourite bands/artists: uhhhhhh right now it’s like P!atD, FoB, Sea Wolf, To Kill a King, Sleeping at Last, and Muse

Song stuck in my head: Kasper by Sea Wolf

Last movie I watched: Oceans 8

Last tv show I watched: Brooklyn 99 bc I’m halfway through a rewatch by accident

What do I post: mostly just shitposting, art, and video game shit at this point

Do I get asks: Nah. I also don’t talk to anyone though bc I’m an introverted little shit who never has the energy or motivation to reach out

URL meaning: uhhhhhh I made this url when I was super into Harry Potter so

Average hours of sleep: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯    like 5 maybe with naps halfway through the day bc I’m a disaster???

Nationality: Canadian (of European descent)

[pointy-pup]

@doomspaniels I’ve been doing what I can as far as little mini training sessions when I’m up and out of bed, but kibble on the floor wouldn’t get much of her attention. In her weird out of whack behaviour the past few days she’s barely been eating her meals too :( She finally ate a whole breakfast today which makes me feel a little better about it. And my friend picked up a nice big beef knuckle for her this weekend at the Toronto Pet Expo, which was an absolute godsend that’s kept her busy for quite a while. Keeping some snacks close by for her is sounding like a really good idea though, I’m thinking I might start with that tomorrow. I can’t move my arms too much and I can’t really bend, but I’m thinking about starting some heelwork tomorrow to keep her occupied and focused for a while! Hopefully it will help. 

@mightyisthepen Yeah I’ve given her a stuffed kong a couple times, but I can’t reach high enough to get the peanut butter down and our massive jar of it is too heavy for me, so I have to get somebody else to do it and they’re all reluctant because they “don’t think she deserves special snacks when she’s behaving so badly” so basically I just want to scream. But I’m thinking about working a lot of random recalls with her the next few days with some nice tasty snacks kept nearby but locked up tight. Part of the issue is that my mom’s been home the entire time since my surgery and she’s overly mothering me and barely lets me get near the dog without freaking out about me hurting myself, so it’s made helping in little ways pretty difficult.